Photos by Sandra Michaud
Expanding Your Horizons Session 1 022220
Expanding Your Horizons Session 1 022220
Dr. Jenica Laney from Arenas Valley Animal Clinic explains to the girls what she does during an examination.
Expanding Your Horizons Session 1 022220
Dr. Laney tells the girls how she will examine her patient Nessa’s ears.
Expanding Your Horizons Session 1 022220
Samera Castillo listens to Nessa’s heartbeat.
Expanding Your Horizons Session 1 022220
Jayra Gutierrez takes her turn with the stethoscope.
Expanding Your Horizons Session 1 022220
“What Does a Nurse Do?” Student nurse Gabrielle Barrigan watches as Leilani Orosco and Cruz Griesen practice with breathing apparatuses.
Expanding Your Horizons Session 1 022220
Leilani Orosco
Expanding Your Horizons Session 1 022220
Nursing student Julia Mickelson coaches Sofia Zunigo in tying off an arm in preparation to inserting a needle.
Expanding Your Horizons Session 1 022220
Sofia slips the needle into the vein.
Expanding Your Horizons Session 1 022220
The girls prepare to work with stethoscopes.
Expanding Your Horizons Session 1 022220
Getting ready to make “potions”.
Expanding Your Horizons Session 1 022220
Retired pharmacist Barbara Wood shows Kristy Figueroa and Emely Torres the proper technique for using a mortar and pestle.
Expanding Your Horizons Session 1 022220
Getting ready to make “Elephant Toothpaste“.
Expanding Your Horizons Session 1 022220
Brenda Dominguez shows a slide describing the ingredients needed to make “Elephant Toothpaste.”
Expanding Your Horizons Session 1 022220
Kimberly Torres, Isabel Jinemnez, Jaceline Ramirez and Chidimne Nwachuku measure the first ingredient.
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The girls add the final ingredient to the beaker.
Expanding Your Horizons Session 1 022220
Wow! The chemical reaction begins.
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And it keeps getting bigger.
Expanding Your Horizons Session 1 022220
And bigger.
Expanding Your Horizons Session 1 022220
Session one is over and the girls move on to their next workshop.
More than 300 girls from all around southwest New Mexico participated in Saturday’s “Expanding Your Horizons” event at Western New Mexico University. Kelduyn Garland, one of the event organizers, said that the girls, ages 10 to 14, came from Silver City, Reserve, Cliff, Deming, Columbus and Lordsburg. 40 women volunteers and 15 WNMU student volunteers shepherded the groups of girls as they went about their day.
The girls chose, from 21 available workshops, the three that they would like to participate in during the three sessions that day. Each session lasted approximately an hour with a break for lunch between sessions two and three.
Some of the workshops the girls could choose from let them learn about extracting DNA, Forensic Science, Geology, Medical and Veterinary sciences, Agriculture Chemistry and more.
The Beat was able to sit in on a few of the workshops. During the first session we visited “Junior Vet for Your Pet” in which the girls did physical exams on live animals and learned about diagnostic procedures used by veterinarians.
Another workshop visited was “What Does a Nurse Do?” The girls learned nursing
assessment techniques using real medical equipment.
Then it was on to “Capsules, Lotions, ’Magic Potions’” where the girls experimented with pharmacy fun! “Pour it in, mix it up, put it in a bottle... make pills or lotions you can take home.”
Moving on to “Chemixtures and Chemysteries!” The girls saw what chemistry magic they could stir up by dissolving, diluting, amalgamating, and uniting molecules!